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2 UK men admit stealing Henry Moore sculpture - Wire Entertainment - The...

LONDON -- Two men have pleaded guilty in a British court to stealing a bronze Henry Moore sculpture worth up to 500,000...

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>2 UK men admit stealing Henry Moore sculpture

LONDON (AP) — Two men have pleaded guilty in a British court to stealing a bronze Henry Moore sculpture worth up to...

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2 UK men admit stealing Henry Moore sculpture

LONDON — Two men have pleaded guilty in a British court to stealing a bronze Henry Moore sculpture worth up to 500,000 pounds ($793,800). "The Sundial," created in...

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Cash-strapped UK officials sell Henry Moore statue - Wire World News - The...

LONDON -- A cash-strapped authority in east London says it's selling a valuable Henry Moore statue over the objections...

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>Cash-strapped UK officials sell Henry Moore statue

LONDON (AP) — A cash-strapped authority in east London says it's selling a valuable Henry Moore statue over the...

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IoS visual art review: 1913: The Shape of Time, Henry Moore Institute,...

How long a century of art is, and how short. In 1913, Jacques-Ernest Bulloz photographed a bronze cast of Rodin's Burghers of Calais being lowered gingerly into place next to the House of Lords. As...

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British Art World Figures Protest Possible Sale of a Henry Moore

The cash-strapped council of the Borough of Tower Hamlets in London’s East End is expected to decide on Wednesday whether it will proceed with plans to sell a valuable Henry Moore sculpture despite...

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UK art world slams council for sculpture sale plan

LONDON (Reuters) - Leading figures in the art world, including Danny Boyle who oversaw the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, have urged a council in east London to reconsider plans to sell off...

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Cash-strapped London officials sell Henry Moore statue to raise money

LONDON — A cash-strapped authority in east London says it’s selling a valuable Henry Moore statue over the objections of leading British arts figures including director Danny Boyle. London’s Tower...

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Woman admits stealing $137,000

Ex-fiscal officer facing prison for embezzling from Clinton Township Crime Databases Find statistics and facts from all Columbus homicides. Search by name, race, and county....

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Council to decide on future of Henry Moore sculpture

Tower Hamlets Council in London is due to decide on Wednesday about the future of a Henry Moore sculpture. The authority has been looking at the possibility of selling Draped Seated Woman to ease...

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London council to sell Henry Moore work to pay bills

LONDON (Reuters) - One of London's most deprived boroughs decided on Wednesday to sell a Henry Moore sculpture valued at up to 20 million pounds ($32 million) to ease its debts, despite pressure from...

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The most radical year in art history, and a new Gangnam Style – the week in...

Was 1913 the most avant garde year ever? Plus Anish Kapoor and pals do Gangnam Style, and Gerry Adams hangs in the National Portrait Gallery – all in today's weekly art dispatch Radical nude …...

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Moore's the pity: Fury as Tower Hamlets Council sells 'Draped Seated Woman'...

A council has gone ahead with the controversial sale of the Henry Moore sculpture Draped Seated Woman to claw back money lost in budget cuts, it has emerged. The sale, by Tower Hamlets Council, had...

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Two men admit to $21,000 club robbery at knife point

Two men have admitted their roles in a knife-point club robbery which netted more than $21,000. Tayo Ryan Emery and Douglas Geoffrey Gooding pleaded guilty in the ACT Magistrates Court on Thursday....

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Bangor woman admits to stealing from nonprofit

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A former employee of the charitable arm of a Maine hospital group has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $56,000 from the...

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Desecrating war memorials offends against everything we hold dear

MPs today have a chance to give these precious icons the protection they deserve Targeted: the war memorial in Barr Beacon, Birmingham, after parts of the copper roof were stolen last year Photo:...

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Bloody Whales, 7-Ton Henry Moore, Bathhouse Nude: Hot Art

Blood-red paint gushes, splashes and drips in the new Barnaby Furnas paintings at Marianne Boesky gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea district. “If Wishes Were Fishes” has a feverish energy, down to the...

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Henry Moore's cooling towers under threat

To some, they are a monstrous blot on the landscape. To others, they are majestic symbols of a dying industrial age. Now, the cooling towers of Didcot power station are to be demolished, and both...

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Selling Henry Moore's sculpture? What an opportunity for public art

The proceeds of Tower Hamlets' sale could feed into what councils do best – nurturing art, says Andrew Shoeben Any more for any Moore? Photograph: Alamy So, Tower Hamlets have decided to dispose of...

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